Claire Kennedy Design-Heirloom and Vintage Restoration

Heirloom Gown Restoration and Refurbishing

Claire does beautiful restoration, refurbishing, upcycling and redesigning of heirloom and antique wedding gowns and veils.

Katy (to the right) choose the gown her grandmother wore in 1960, her mother wore in 1983, and she wore in 2012. The silk netting had disintegrated, so Claire stitched the lace onto a netting to stabilize the gown and fitted the gown to the bride.

Here is Katy with her mother and grandmother wearing their dress!

Kate wore her great-grandmother's veil hand made from Belgium lace

Here is a full view of the bride in her heirloom gown.

Lace from the mother of bride's dress hand sewn onto tulle for the bride.

This shows why antique and heirloom lace is so beautiful. This example has 6 different backgrounds which is very rare in today's laces.

This is an heirloom guipure lace from the mother's wedding gown for the bride's veil.

The whole guipure lace wedding veil. All the lace from this veil was from the mother's wedding gown.

Another veil with the lace from the mother's wedding gown.